Nova Patents
US7693003B2

Semiconductor package

Summary by NHIP

Multi-Chip Package Routing

The semiconductor package connects multiple chips by selectively enabling specific input/output pads based on decoded coding information. The number of decoding pads per chip scales logarithmically with the total chip count, following the formula log 2 n for n chips.

Claim Score by NHIP

Read claim 1, the broadest

Abstract

A semiconductor package facilitates package connection due to different locations of input/output pads in each interlayer die depending on coding information in a multi-chip package. The semiconductor package includes many chips. Each of the chips includes: input/output pads configured to input and output data having a given bandwidth; a decoding pad configured to receive coding information; and a code control unit configured to decode the coding information and to enable an input/output pad positioned at a specific location among the input/output pads according to the decoding result.

US7693003B2, drawing sheet 1
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Term

1.5 yearsleft in the term

Expires 2 April 2028, including 281 days of term adjustment.

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13 claims: 1 independent, 12 dependent

  1. 1
    Broadest claimClaim Score 65, broad(NHIP)A semiconductor package including a plurality of chips, wherein each of the chips include:input/output pads configured to input and output data at a given bandwidth;a decoding pad configured to receive coding information;and a code control unit configured to decode the coding information to obtain a decoding result, and to enable an input/output pad positioned at a specific location among the input/output pads according to the decoding result, wherein a location of an enabled input/output pad of one chip is different from a location of an enabled input/output pad of another chip.